ROAD Backend

Related ROAD Clients Release

With R2024.1.0 ROAD clients are released as version 1.3.39.0 (and latest Interview Recorder is version 1.2.28.0). It is recommended to use those versions (or higher) in combination.

Dependencies

• (Part of ROAD Installer) Visual C++ Runtime updated to 2015-2022 (14.34.31931.0)

• Minimum DPE Services 2.4.301.0 is needed

• or Minimum DPE Nano Services is needed

Highlights

• Service

  • New rundown API

  • Service API “configs” to manage RundownBroker configuration items

• Installer

  • Add GPIO DLLs to ROAD Setup

  • Add RundownPlayer filter

• Worker

  • Supporting streaming to Icecast server

  • New RundownPlayer filter

New Features (general)

Service

• Add "Host name" as a placeholder in ROAD Json Templates

• More stable inter-host connections serving for subscriptions relaying

• ROAD Service: Purge Worker Logs Only After Finished

• New subscription type ConfigUpdate with according notifications

Installer

• Do a check in Connections/DNS name for any asterisks * and display a warning.

• Adapt to New WebServer Parameters and Assemblies

• Display a Messagebox, when no certificate is installed in Cert:\LocalMachine\My

New Features (ROAD streaming)

Worker

• Reduce frequency of retries when metadata updates fail

  • Disable proxy for REST calls

  • New RundownPlayer filter

    • "RundownUpdate" interface to ROAD Service

    • Rundown updates

    • Audio decoder management

    • Support for "startOffset" and "stopOffset"

    • Fadepoint support

    • Handle "Pause" in a job with Rundown Player input

    • Notifications from Worker to Service, when files in a rundown playout start and finish

Fixed Issues

Service

• ROAD API: GET/PUT sequence should never fail

• Logger: Relative Path Doesn't Work

Worker

• Channels with audio are missing LiveLevel (on specific 4 channels WASAPI device)

• Option "DpeUrl": "(none)" leads to a crash of the worker

Installer

• Upgrade installation SecureProtocols>"Friendly name" is empty

• DNS name edit box is sometimes filled with "DNS Name=" before the real host name

• Log level settings are note preserved when updating ROAD